Donnerstag, April 07, 2011

Improved means to an unimproved end

... [W]ith a hundred "modern improvements" there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. ... Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are improved means to an unimproved end.

Thoreau: Walden; or, Life in the Woods

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